Itchy

When your energy is back before the path is clear.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Live the questions now.

~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet.

I feel itchy.

Literally, yes — one of perimenopause’s many delights.

But metaphorically too.

I’ve been feeling restless lately, as I often do this time of year, itching to say goodbye to winter — both literally and figuratively — and ready to step into spring with its daffodil-inspired possibilities.

And then last night it snowed.

A good, solid amount that blanketed the ground outside and reminded me that winter still wants her way with me. I embraced it as best I could — pouring a hot cup of coffee, putting on the fireplace, getting cozy on the couch with a blanket and a book.

And it worked…for a moment. But I’m still itchy.

Itchy for newness.
Itchy for warmth.
Itchy for energy.

After months of calm, grounded focus on a few key things (out of both necessity and desire), I feel the shift: there’s something in me that wants to move again.

Maybe you’re itchy too. Maybe you’re ready to just. get. going.

You sense the seasonal shift coming and you want to get out ahead of it, all the while knowing that it’s not quite time yet.

This is the rub, isn’t it?

When the energy is there before the path is clear.

And you could do what I’ve done 100 times or more — rush it.

I get the itch and suddenly six months of ideas need to happen in the next thirty days. My calendar fills. My discernment thins. Everything feels urgent and bright.

Not because I’m ready. Because I’m itchy.

This time around, I’m resisting my temptation to leap into action, just long enough to ask myself a few questions:

What do I want this next season of ambition to look like?
What do I need to set in place to be ready for what’s next?
And what deserves my energy, now that it’s back?

Because there’s a difference between reacting to restlessness and responding to readiness.

And right now, that difference is everything.

If any of this sounds familiar, the Ambition Reset was made for exactly this moment — when the seeds are pushing but you're not sure which ones to water. It's a guided process to help you get clear before you get busy, so when spring does arrive, you're ready to grow in the right direction.

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